Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Four CETA faculty awarded sabbaticals for 2012-2013

President Walter Harrison and Provost Sharon L. Vasquez are pleased to announce that the following faculty members have been awarded sabbaticals for the 2012-13 academic year:

Associate Professor Akram Abu-aisheh (Full Academic Year)Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringCollege of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture
Professor Abu-aisheh will use his sabbatical to pursue research in solar energy focusing on the dc-dc converters required for solar panels when used with high power Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs).

Associate Professor Thomas Eppes (Spring Semester, 2013)Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringCollege of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture
Professor Eppes will use his sabbatical to develop a multiphase computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of laser percussion drilling, the first reported three-phase CFD model of this process.

Associate Professor Ivana Milanovic (Spring Semester, 2013)Department of Mechanical EngineeringCollege of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture
Professor Milanovic will use her sabbatical to study unsteady wake vortices of low speed jets in cross-flow, using a software engine.

Professor Hemchandra Shertukde (Fall Semester, 2012)Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringCollege of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture
Professor Shertukde will use his sabbatical to write a new book entitled Distributed Photovoltaic - Grid Transformers, intended for publication in the Summer of 2013.